The Man Who Walked Between the Towers

2003·Brookfield, Connecticut

by Gerstein, Mordicai

Brookfield, Connecticut : Roaring Brook Press, 2003 First Edition, Fourth Printing. Signed "For Faith" by the author/illustrator and dated 11/8/04 at the bottom of the verso of the front free end paper. Gerstein was awarded the 2004 Caldecott Award for his illustrations. With the two fold-out panoramas that present the excitement and anxiety of French aerialist Philippe Petit's historic 1974 death-defying feat: walking on a tight rope strung between the yet-to-be-completed World Trade Center's Twin Towers in New York. Cover boards, dust jacket, text block, and interior pages are clean and unmarked, in as new condition. Dust jacket has some shelf wear especially at the head of the spine panel, it is price clipped, with the Caldecott medal on the front panel, in mylar sleeve. Fully illustrated laminated boards, with red and white titles to spine, red and black titles on cover, clean with little shelf wear. Binding is square and solid. (Inventory #: 004591)

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